• Corporate restructuring 

      Thorburn, Karin S.; Eckbo, B. Espen (Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)
      We survey the empirical literature on corporate nancial restructuring, including breakup transactions (divestitures, spin-o s, equity carveouts, tracking stocks), leveraged recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts (LBOs). ...
    • Hedging without sweat : a genetic programming approach 

      Lensberg, Terje; Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner (Working paper;2013:5, Working paper, 2013)
      Hedging in the presence of transaction costs leads to complex op- timization problems. These problems typically lack closed-form so- lutions, and their implementation relies on numerical methods that provide hedging ...
    • Innovation, competition, and investment timing 

      Koskinen, Yrjö; Mæland, Jøril (Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)
      In our model multiple innovators compete against each other by submitting investment proposals to an investor. The investor chooses the least expensive proposal and when to invest in it. Innovators have to provide costly ...